Steve Mendes Catarino
Initial Level Research, iCBR/CIBB, Faculty of Medicine · University of Coimbra
Biography
From 2003 to 2004 he worked as a Scientific Research Technician in the Biology of Ageing group of IBILI, FMUC. From 2010 to 2011 SC continued his work at the Biology of Ageing group as a Scientific Research Technician. In 2011 SC was awarded an FCT post-doctoral grant carried out at IBILI, FMUC until 2017. In 2017, SC obtained a post-doctoral grant through the HEALTHYAGING 2020 project (CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000012), to work in the GuIC group, at iCBR, FMUC. From December 2018 to December 2024, within the frame of the transitional standard of the DL57-2016 law, SC worked as an Initial Level PhD Researcher at iCBR, FMUC.
Education
Steve Catarino (SC) obtained his degree in Biochemistry from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT), University of Coimbra (UC) in 2003 after conducting his final project work at the Biology of Ageing group (now known as Group of Ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis and Intercellular Communication, GuIC); in the Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences (IBILI, now known as the Coimbra Institute for Clinical and Biomedical Research, iCBR), Faculty of Medicine, UC (FMUC). In 2004 he was awarded a PhD grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e Technologia (FCT) to carry out his thesis...
Recent Scopus Publications
- Engineered poly(vinyl alcohol)-DNA hydrogels for sustained and biocompatible gene delivery
- Unveiling the antitumor mechanism of 7α-acetoxy-6β-hydroxyroyleanone from Plectranthus hadiensis in glioblastoma
- Connexin43 promotes exocytosis of damaged lysosomes through actin remodelling
- Cx43 can form functional channels at the nuclear envelope and modulate gene expression in cardiac cells
- Cx43-mediated hyphal folding counteracts phagosome integrity loss during fungal infection
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/15130763300
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bFGA-ToAAAAJ
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=15130763300